Among all the awards that such a lady deserves, there is only one that should be accredited to her inspiring efforts and that is the Nobel Prize of Peace award.

After her marriage to business man Faysal El Khalil, May left her native land Lebanon and moved to Nigeria where she spent 23 years investing her energy in Social work.
Encouraged by her husband, family and friends, she revived and presided the Lebanese Ladies Society, an NGO dedicated to helping the underprivileged Nigerians.

Being a marathon runner herself, May used to run until 2001, when she was hit by a bus while training. This nearly fatal accident placed her in a coma and despite 39 surgeries that enabled her to walk again, she couldn’t run anymore.

"If I couldn't run myself, I wanted to make sure that others could."

Defying the Lebanese critical political situation, she founded the Beirut Marathon which became a symbolical run towards peace showing the world a civilized image of Lebanon away from war, internal conflicts and stereotyped image.
For once and for the first time in 2003, differences were set aside and all that we could see was an entire nation along with 49 different nationalities taking one direction, heading to one final destination: peace.

From that moment, May El-Khalil’s success was no longer hers alone. She, as well as the Beirut Marathon became an indivisible entity belonging to the country and its people.May’s dreams have no limits; making sure that what doesn’t kill her makes her stronger, she turns each of her ambitions into a new challenge.